How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

Re:How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only? by mosdl on Thursday April 02, 2020 @06:03PM (#22764376)

Yet we all managed to write complex web applications without much trouble that performed better than React ever can. DOM manipulation was needed rarely actually - usually you replace subtrees anyways (switch tabs, etc).

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Re:How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only? by Drew_ on Friday April 03, 2020 @05:07PM (#22773962)

If DOM manipulation is rarely needed then your web app isn't complex, it's at most a collection of CRUD pages. UI Frameworks like React are for building UI's that accomplish a lot more than that through frequent DOM manipulation. If all you need is CRUD then templating frameworks still exist, are well maintained, and widely in use.

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Re:How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only? by mosdl on Friday April 03, 2020 @08:22PM (#22775148)

Even in complex apps, most of the DOM remains the same and you are changing several properties (some text, changing some classes).

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Re:How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only? by spiralx on Monday April 06, 2020 @07:39AM (#22792801)

That's not true as soon as your UI contains conditional logic or a list of elements, at least one of which will be present in almost every web application.

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